Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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